I dont have any /var/backups/dpkg.status.* files?

[John Ericson <john@john.pp.se>]

On Mar 29 01:31, Shaul Karl wrote:
> You might start with examining /var/lib/dpkg/available* and
> /var/backups/dpkg.status.* in order to determine what exactly were changed.

Im following this thread since I myself is looking for a way to backtrack
changes in the system done by APT and dpkg. I know about the available* and
status* files in /var/lib/dpkg but I didnt know about the /var/backups
files. But when Im checking this directory I doesnt find any dpkg.status.*
files. All the files that exists in my /var/backups directory is:

high@highs-compis:/var/backups$ l
total 17
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Sep  3  2000 ./
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         1024 Jun  3  2000 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          586 Mar  1 03:44 group.bak
-rw-r-----    1 root     shadow        434 Mar  1 03:44 gshadow.bak
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2571 Sep  2  2000 inetd.conf.bak
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2632 Sep  1  2000 inetd.conf.bak.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          930 Aug 24  2000 inetd.conf.bak.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          952 Aug 12  2000 inetd.conf.bak.2.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          924 Jan 29  2000 inetd.conf.bak.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1624 Mar  1 03:44 passwd.bak
-rw-r-----    1 root     shadow        999 Mar  1 03:44 shadow.bak
-rw-------    1 root     root          133 Dec 27  1999 smbpasswd.bak

Im using dpkg (1.8.3.1) and apt (0.5.3).

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